The Dirt
Take a Listening Walk
By: Sandy Swegel The skies were gray this morning. The landscape was brown and dead. I kept looking for Spring but at best there were just the green tips of bulbs appearing among dead leaves. Maybe the buds were swelling on trees. It was cold, but it still felt like Spring. How could that be? […]
LAB GIRL
A Good Seed Read By: Sandy Swegel Hope Jahren has helped me fall even more deeply with seeds and the natural world this week. Our book group just started to read her best selling book “Lab Girl.” Lab Girl is like two books in one….a marvelous account of her life as a woman in […]
Start Your 4th of July Party Now
Firecracker Penstemon By: Sandy Swegel Get your Fireworks and start your 4th of July party now. One of my favorite things about perennials is that you plant them once and they bloom year after year. Their appearance every year becomes one of the sweet rituals of the garden. Bright red Firecracker Penstemon is a favorite […]